Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-31
The rnrmcre Won't Sac

WASHINGTON. July 3O.-lSpecial Tele-
gram TO the BEE. Three years ago at tile
request of q number of stockmen in different
parts Of the country the state department ad-
dressed letter to every United States con.
sui, directing all to furnish the department
with such information relating to stock
breeding, dairy farming and kindred indus
tries as might be interesting to dairy-farmers
and stock breeders In the United States
The result Of this investigation has
just been issued from the govern
ment printing Office. 1t is embraced in vol
ume Of nearly 900 pages which will doubtless
prove of greater value TO the million farmers
in this country than any other work ever
issued by the government. The work was
performed under the direction of Mr.. Mich
ael Scanlon of the consular bureau who has
edited several valuable works of like char.
acter, and 1t represents upwards Of two
years Of the labor of that gentleman as well
as the careful researches of the entire con-
sular list. The volume gives o. graphic idea
Of the development of the breeding. industry
be distributed among the men who are
most interested .in its contents 1t
would doubtless prove of inestimable value
to the farmers OF the United States. Unfor.
and they will be exhausted long before the
farmers hear they have been issued. Worse
than this, 1t is said that the type was not stere-
supply printed it will be necessary to reset
the entire work. The committees on print
Ing OF congress were urged TO order an addi-
tlonal supply OF these works printed. but no
attention was paid to the request, and the re-
suit is that there will be scarcely enough of
them TO supply the libraries of members
themselves and of their immediate friends.
The work contains 3G6 Autographed plates
with interesting data and statistics concern
ing the cattle business Of the world. 1t is IN
teresting to note that this country supplies
more than fifty per cent Of all the foreign
In 1884 the total amount imported into Great
Britain and Ireland was 2l5, s56, ,56S pounds.
Of this vast quantity of caseln the United
States supplied 100, ,333. $50 pounds. Yet
curing the British market for cheese it has
not been so successful with butter. OF total
Of 277,24S, ,S32 pounds OF this product of the
dairy the United States furnished only
from Holland. This % coantry. now howeysT, gT'h fur.
nished the thrifty Dutch butter merchants
with upwards Of 33, ,0OO.O 900 pounds OF the oil
from which Oleomargarine is made, and this
doubtless supplied the basis on which great
don was founded.
1t appears from the reports of American
consuls in England that the roast beef OF
old England, is fast disappearing and that
Bul! and his daughters the American
cattle ranches are displacing the
stalls of the English farmer surely
az ofd ahs a W not do tor the bn
ground and the day will come no doubt when
American butter as we'll as American beef
and AMERICAN cheese will lead in the British
markets. The factory system in the produc
Of mn hos toh tiSha fh1,r ntati
OF the American cheese abroad AS soon as
the farmers show as much enterprise in this
matter OF good butter as they do in cheese
they will find that the English people will
any other country. The passage of the oleO-
margarine act ought to be OF great help to the
American daryman in securing tlriner
foOthold In the British butter market.
He Never will Be Missed.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-Special to the
BEE. mo man in the public service at the
beginning OF the present administration has
left his position with so little regret from his
associates in office as Mr.. NJ. L. Bell, late
supervising architect of the treasury. Bell
was appointed from Iowa several years ago
and at that time was pronounced republic
can. To all outward appearances he re-
mained member of that party until 1t was
known beyond question that Mr.. Cleveland
had been elected to the presi-
dency. In October, 1884, this man
stated to number Of gentlemen
IN his Office that if by any possible chance
the democrats should be successful he would
at once resign, as he could not consent to
serve under a democratic administration.
No sooner had the republican national COM
mittee given up all hope OF the election of
Mr.. Blaine than he found it necessary to
travel at once to Troy, N. Y, to examine
the site selected for the public building there.
He told his associates in the Office that while
there he would take occasion to run over to
Albany to Congratulate the governor" It is
not recorded that he accomplished anything
for tho government while In Troy, but 1t is
On his return he began to play his cards to
retain the favor of the victorious democracy.
Senator German, OF Maryland. "BishOp"
Oberly, OF illinois, and other democratic
supervising architect were allowed to dictate
appointments and removals in the Office,
which was not embraced in the classified
service Men who had served the govern
were OF a technicsl Character were DISCHARGED
without warning and others often entirely
incompetent were appointed to succeed
then. Everything possible that could by any
Wn wS Sc s e
Inauguration of President Cleveland nearly
every employe of the office has been dis
charged. There is not another bureau under
the government where there has been any.
thing like the changes that have taken place
In the Office of the supervising architect of
the treasury. All these changes have been
made either directly or indirectly at the in.
stance of the alleged republican at
the head of the Office. That he
failed to win the favor that he expected Is
evident from the fact that Secretary Fair
child has, upon more than one occasion, told
his friends that the Office would bs filled by
democrat Just as soon as o competent man
could be found to accept the position at the
salary offered. He said further that It had
been offered to number of architects, each
of whom had declined In turn because 81, $40
year was not sufficiently attractive to In
duce them to leave their private business.
The new architect Mr.. Ferret. of New Or
leans, Is gentleman of excellent profes.
sional reputation, who refused to accent the
Office when 1t was offered to him. lie was
finally persuaded that 1t would afford him an
opportunity to extend his reputation to
all sections of the country, and this
consideration Is said to have ct last
induced him to accept the place.
He will doubtless build up the office
as soon as he can weed out the exceedingly
incompetent hands who were appointed by
Bell solely OH account of their political pull
which they gave him. The Office is of far
more importance than it is generally known,
as the supervising architect has almost un-
limited control OF the expenditure Of mill
ions of dollars every wear.